After studying history
throughout my life in the United States, I’ve come to realize that our approach to history is America-centric. Even when studying World or European history, all events are filtered through an American lens, almost as if the world functions as
a reaction to what we do. Such a geopolitical vacuum does not exist. The beauty of
one class in particular that I am taking, “Europe Since 1815”, is that it
completely challenges this misconception. Focusing on the dynamic events in
history during that specific time and space period, its
lens is not tinted with red, white, and blue, but rather targets what the title
of the course promises.
